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Newmarket Films

Newmarket Films, LLC was an American privately owned independent film production and distribution company and a former film distribution subsidiary of Newmarket Capital Group. The company produced such films as The Mexican, Cruel Intentions, and the Christopher Nolan films Memento and The Prestige. Newmarket distributed, in North America, such films as The Passion of the Christ, Whale Rider, Monster, Donnie Darko, and God Grew Tired of Us.

Company type

1994 (1994)

Acquired by Exclusive Media Group
Film library now owned by AMBI Group

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United States

History[edit]

Newmarket Capital Group was founded in 1994 by Chris Ball and William Tyrer, with the company's executive team made up of Chris Calhoon, Rene Cogan, John Crye and Robert Fyvolent. The company was originally launched as a film financing company. Newmarket financed and produced films that had "break-out potential" and finance as small as $2 million and as large as $20 million.[1] While financing and producing Memento, the company had trouble trying to find a distribution deal. Producer Aaron Ryder, who brought the film to Newmarket, decided to distribute it as a one-off project under Newmarket Films. Memento was a critical and commercial success, thus leading Newmarket Films to become a full theatrical distribution company.[2]


Newmarket Films was acquired by Exclusive Media Group (which eventually became Exclusive Media) in 2009.[3][4] In 2010, Newmarket made a deal with Lionsgate Home Entertainment to become the exclusive home entertainment distributor for Newmarket's film library.[5] Later that year, Chris Ball left the company to form the distribution company Wrekin Hill Entertainment; Rene Cogan and John Crye joined him.[6] Exclusive Media then sold its own film library, including the Newmarket library, to AMBI Group in 2015.[7]

American Pie

Anna Karenina

A Better Way to Die

Bound

Cruel Intentions

Cruel Intentions 2

Cruel Intentions 3

Dead Man

Devour

Different for Girls

FairyTale: A True Story

Felicia's Journey

A Hole in My Heart

The Importance of Being Earnest

In Your Hands

It's the Rage

The King Is Alive

The Loss of Sexual Innocence

Mean Guns

(co-production with Summit Entertainment) (DVD distributed by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment)

Memento

The Mexican

Mrs Dalloway

My Big Fat Greek Wedding

My Family

Open Hearts

The Prestige

Prom Night

Rogue Trader

S. Darko

The Shooter

Sidewalks of New York

Silent Trigger

A Simple Plan

The Skulls

The Skulls II

The Skulls III

Sliding Doors

Splendor

(co-production with Summit Entertainment) (DVD distributed by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment)

Stark Raving Mad

Stranger than Fiction

Top Dog

Topsy-Turvy

The Usual Suspects

Velvet Goldmine

A Walk on the Moon

The Whole Wide World

Wrong Turn

Y Tu Mamá También

Independent film